Combat mission

Usage examples of sortie.

When Bonaparte in his first Italian campaign had forced Wurmser to retreat into Mantua with 28,000 men, he directed Miollis, with only 4000 men, to oppose any sortie that might be attempted by the Austrian general.

General Menin sent out a sortie which destroyed or captured an enemy patrol.

Chaberton jeta son pardessus sur son epaule, fit passer sa canne de dessous son bras dans sa main, et se dirigea vers la sortie, suivi du client decide a ne pas le lacher.

The longest of my sorties was about 2 hours and the shortest only 15 minutes, but each one involved 20 full minutes of decompression at the start and 20 more of recompression at the end.

Tyrkowo from these sorties in a state of trance and fill our lungs with the air we have won the right to continue to breathe.

During the last of these sorties it is so much quieter everywhere here in the air that we conclude the balloon must be about to go up in some other part of the line.

One finds out that five hundred operational sorties have left their mark.

As engineer officer I am always out and about between sorties so as not to lose any chance of getting one extra aircraft serviceable.

Naltschik we make a few more sorties eastwards to the Terek front, beyond Mosdok.

In between we fly sorties in the northern sector north of the city where the front joins the Don.

Here especially the flak is extraordinarily heavy, the sorties are difficult.

Because of the uninterrupted sorties and the stiff fighting we have done since Stalingrad, we are greatly reduced in the number of aircraft we can daily put in the air.

In one of these attacks my record of operational sorties reaches the 1000 mark.

Between sorties we often chat about our native mountains and, of course, about skiing.

After several sorties based on Briansk we do indeed move back again to Charkow.